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Ted Rall (born 1963 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is a left-wing columnist and editorial cartoonist. Unlike many editorial cartoonists, his political cartoons usually appear in a traditional comic-strip format.He attended Columbia University, where he contributed cartoons to the campus newspapers, and graduated in 1991 with a bachelor of arts in history. Rall says meeting Keith Haring in 1986 inspired him to pursue cartooning.
In 1999, Rall created a fervor among cartoonists when he wrote a controversial article damning Maus creator Art Spiegelman in the Village Voice for allegedly controlling who gets lucrative assignments from magazines like The New Yorker. He was heckled publicly after the article, most blatantly by New York Press cartoonist Danny Hellman. Hellman parodied Rall's Voice style and person, in a phony email that appeared to have come from Rall, declaring that he was going to start a new column entitled "Ted Rall's Balls." The email was sent to a small number of Hellman's friends and Rall -- but was also made to appear that the email went to many prominent figures in New York cartoon publishing. Rall responded with a $1.5 million lawsuit, and has been suing Hellman ever since.
Rall outraged many with his posthumous criticism of Pat Tillman, whom his comic described as an "idiot" and "sap" for participating in the US invasion of Afghanistan.
Rall also raised hackles with his May 4, 2004 Op/Ed "AN ARMY OF SCUM: Or, We're Looking For a Few Good Homosexual Rapists", in which he wrote, "American troops occupying Iraq have become virtually indistinguishable from the SS".
An Op/ED piece (site) by Ted Rall published shortly after the death of former President Ronald Reagan claims Reagan is "turning crispy brown right about now" implying that the former president is burning in hell.
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